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Old October 27th 05, 10:16 PM
W P Dixon
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During my last visit driving in Chicago i thought he'd already done that to
all the freeways there

Patrick
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aircraft structural mech

"Ben Hallert" wrote in message
oups.com...
Oblig:

Breaking news, Chicago Mayor Richard Daley plans to carve giant "X's"
into the I-35 Freeway at midnight tonight.

Ben Hallert
PP-ASEL


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Old October 27th 05, 10:24 PM
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"Ben Hallert" wrote in news:1130446604.902097.250800
@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com:

Oblig:

Breaking news, Chicago Mayor Richard Daley plans to carve giant "X's"
into the I-35 Freeway at midnight tonight.

Ben Hallert
PP-ASEL


Good one!!!! But according to the news article in the link, it
was 'Chisago'. Is the mayor of Chisago also named Daley?

I know, I'm picking on spelling. But it was done more than once.
I'm beginning to wonder if many of the stories posted on news
sites aren't scanned from print and the OCR software screws up,
and of course, no one proofreads the article. I see such silly
stupid mispellings every day. Another piece of evidence for
scanning is I see a lot of double quotes " turned into two single
quotes ''.

BTW, that's was one cool and collected student pilot. Cudos to
him!

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Old October 27th 05, 10:36 PM
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"Skywise" wrote in message
...
But according to the news article in the link, it
was 'Chisago'. Is the mayor of Chisago also named Daley?

I know, I'm picking on spelling. But it was done more than once.
I'm beginning to wonder if many of the stories posted on news
sites aren't scanned from print and the OCR software screws up,
and of course, no one proofreads the article.


No, they spelled it correctly. They're talking about Chisago, not Chicago.
Chicago would be quite a distance from which to send tow trucks to Rush
City, Minnesota. ("The plane, which had experienced an engine failure, was
towed to the Rush City Airport by Chisago County Sheriff's deputies.")
http://www.co.chisago.mn.us/

--Gary


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Old October 27th 05, 10:42 PM
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Skywise wrote:
"Ben Hallert" wrote in
news:1130446604.902097.250800 @g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com:

Oblig:

Breaking news, Chicago Mayor Richard Daley plans to carve giant "X's"
into the I-35 Freeway at midnight tonight.

Ben Hallert
PP-ASEL


Good one!!!! But according to the news article in the link, it
was 'Chisago'. Is the mayor of Chisago also named Daley?


There is no spelling error - the incident happened in Chisago county,
Minnesota. There is also a town of Chisago in Minnesota.

Note that if you follow I-35 south from Duluth you don't get anywhere near
Chicago Illinois.
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Old October 27th 05, 10:51 PM
Nathan Young
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On Thu, 27 Oct 2005 15:56:14 GMT, John Theune
wrote:

sfb wrote:
Except the center between the roadways is where the drainage stuff
lives.


Except what the standard said was "At least two Lanes in each direction"
to be a interstate. So the median where the drainage ditch runs would
be to the left of Shoulder # 1 or Right of Shoulder #2 depending on your
orientation. I would guess when Nathan said landing on the center he
meant between the 2 lanes not in the median.


Exactly.

One caveat to all of this: Since most interstates exhibit asymetric
shoulder widths - it would be tough to judge the actual center of the
pavement. You can't just land in the center of the two traffic lanes.

-Nathan

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Old October 27th 05, 11:21 PM
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As an FYI, I did a quick search on interstate width requirements and
found the following document...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interst...hway_standards
So a two-lane interstate like I-80 in rural areas would be:
12 ft (lane #1)
12 ft (lane #2)
10 ft (shoulder #1)
4 ft (shoulder #2)
--------------------------------
38ft
So it would be possible to put a light single down on in the center
and not even hit a mile marker or reflector post on the sides...


And if you fly a high wing airplane, you don't even need that much
width! ;_)
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Old October 28th 05, 01:26 AM
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One caveat to all of this: Since most interstates exhibit asymetric
shoulder widths - it would be tough to judge the actual center of the
pavement. You can't just land in the center of the two traffic lanes.


While true, it's not a big deal (IMHO, who has never landed on an
interstate). The difference in shoulder width is just a few feet (I
have driven them), and half that is all you need to stay left of the center.

Jose

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Old October 28th 05, 03:47 AM
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Morgans wrote:

I know what most people think. They are all out to get me! (twitch -
twitch)


Calm yourself, Jim. There are some pretty competent people in this menagerie. If
we were all out to get you, ........

George Patterson
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It makes you shoot at your landlord. And it makes you miss him.
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Old October 28th 05, 03:50 AM
George Patterson
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Skywise wrote:

Good one!!!! But according to the news article in the link, it
was 'Chisago'.


http://www.ci.chisago.mn.us/

George Patterson
Drink is the curse of the land. It makes you quarrel with your neighbor.
It makes you shoot at your landlord. And it makes you miss him.
 




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